Multiple sources who attended the meeting tell Golf Digest that the discussion did not include many specifics regarding what a merger might look like. Rather, LPGA officials spoke more broadly about TV viewership goals, purse growth and how a merger could grow women’s golf overall.
LPGA officials announced Thursday that the Taiwan Swinging Skirts LPGA, slated for October 26-29, has been canceled due to “operational factors.” The tournament was last held in 2019 when Nelly Korda successfully defended her first-ever LPGA title.
Twenty-two-year-old Victorian Gabriela Ruffels has taken a major step towards playing her way onto the LPGA Tour with a two-stroke win at the Epson Tour’s Carlisle Arizona Women’s Classic.
The Grant Thornton Invitational will debut this December at Tiburon Golf Club and the Ritz-Carlton Naples in Florida. The event will consist of 16 PGA Tour and 16 LPGA players competing for a $US4 million purse.
Sarah Jane Smith broke a long drought and added her name to the handful of women to have beaten the men in Webex Players Series events with a brilliant close-out performance at Cobram Barooga today in the TPS Murray River tournament.
The 25-year-old Canadian had led after the first three rounds and seemed very much in control of her game en route to her 13th career LPGA title, despite the fact that only the previous weekend she figured out what clubs she was going to be using.
Ko grabbed her 19th career LPGA title plus Rolex Player of the Year honours for the second time and secured the Vare Trophy for low stroke average for the season.
Nelly Korda’s 2022 comeback story seemed to culminate last week when, after suffering a dangerous blood clot in March, she earned her first LPGA win of the season and regained the world No.1 ranking.
On Tuesday afternoon at Tiburon Golf Club, Minjee Lee sat in the media room next to a small trophy she had won a week earlier for capturing the Aon Risk Reward Challenge.
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